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recommendation of the Executive Committee of this Society, may 

 be admitted to affiliation with this society at any annual meeting 

 by a majority vote of the members present. Application for 

 affiliation by any society shall be held to carry with it an agree- 

 ment on the part of the said society to the conditions of affilia- 

 tion as set forth in the "Terms of Affiliation" as adopted by 

 this Society, as set forth in By-Law No. 4. 



Article VIII. 

 Piiblications. 

 The only official publication of the Society shall be one com- 

 prising the Constitution, By-Laws, and list of members of the 

 vSociety and of the affiliated societies, together with the Secre- 

 tary's record of the meetings, whetlier regular or special, of all 

 the societies. 



Article IX. 

 By-Laws. 

 Section I. By-Laws recommended by the Executive Com- 

 mittee may be adopted at any meeting by a majority vote. 



Section II. By-Laws may be repealed at any meeting, upon 

 recommendation of the Executive Committee, by a majority vote. 



Article X. 



Amendments. 



Amendments to this Constitution, recommended by the Execu- 

 tive Committee, may be adopted at any annual meeting by a vote 

 of two-thirds of the members present. 



With regard to the By-Laws, the committee begs to recommend 

 that By-Laws 1-3 be allowed to stand unaltered, and that there 

 be added a By-Law, No. 4, as follows : 



4. Section I. The affiliated societies shall each elect its 

 own members, but only such persons as are indicated in By-Law 

 No. 2 of this Society shall be eligible to meml^ership in any one 

 of them. Members of affiliated societies shall be ipso facto mem- 

 bers of the American Society of Naturalists, and it shall be the 

 duty of the Secretary of each of the affiliated Societies to give 

 written notice of anv alterations which may occur in the member- 



